The classrooms are full, but only more and better-trained teachers will lift learning.
John Edwards is a Nonresident Fellow at the Lowy Institute and an Adjunct Professor with the John Curtin Institute of Public Policy at Curtin University. Confronted by US-China conflict, decaying ...
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Australia’s newly released Intergenerational Report 2026 projects that deaths will outnumber births by the 2060s. It also recognises that migration contributes to population growth, slows the ageing ...
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Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim shocked the refugee community when he said on 16 September that he would invite Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing for an official visit in return for Yangon taking back ...
The MDBs now provide close to half of all development support to Southeast Asian countries. However, the stabilising role of these banks is threatened by shareholder dynamics and decreased donor ...
Official development finance to Southeast Asia declined in 2024, falling to its lowest level since 2015. Cuts to bilateral aid have been the predominant driver of the fall In 2024, total official ...
Arguably, it was the Coalition that first pivoted towards a more pragmatic use of Australian development assistance in the Pacific, with Malcolm Turnbull’s 2016 “step change”, followed two years later ...